debris basin
English
Noun
debris basin (plural debris basins)
- A facility to catch debris flows, to trap vegetative and sedimentary debris, such as gravel, boulders, branches, trunks; but allow water to drain; to prevent destruction from debris inundation and surge front downstream.
Coordinate terms
- dam
- weir
- grizzly bars / grizzly
- water gate
- sedimentation pond
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